State v. Esparza’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2002
6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Benson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the victim is the aggressor; (2) the offender plays a minor role in the crime; (3) the offender lacks substantial capacity for judgment when the offense was committed; (4) other substantial grounds * * * which tend to excuse or mitigate the offender’s culpability, although not amounting to a defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wenthold
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.